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New Delhi:<\/strong> An Indian-origin Sikh Buta Singh Gill was shot dead at a construction site in Canada\u2019s Edmonton city on Monday. Gill was a builder and head of the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple in the city.<\/p>\n The Edmonton police said, \u201cAt approximately 12:00 pm today, Monday, April 8, 2024, Southwest Branch patrol officers responded to the report of a shooting in the area of Cavanagh Boulevard SW and Cherniak Way SW.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUpon police arrival three injured males were located. EMS responded and determined two males, a 49-year-old and a 57-year-old were deceased, and a 51-year-old male was seriously injured. Paramedics transported the surviving male to hospital with serious life-threatening injuries,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n Prior to his murder, as per the media reports, Gill had received extortion calls like many other Indians living in Canada. In a regular media briefing, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, \u201cPeople getting extortion calls, especially Indian nationals, is a matter of serious concern,\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe (India and Canada) have several issues to discuss. There was an issue about a temple which was attacked. The Canadian police then thereafter went into the investigation of the temple premises, and the person who had intruded it later turned out, and they issued a statement that the person was of unsound mind. So there are these issues that keep happening\u2026,\u201d Jaiswal added.<\/p>\n After the shooting, around 50 South Asian homebuilders gathered at the site. Ex-councillor Mohinder Banga stated that Gill is a religious, helpful individual with strong Punjabi community ties. Gill, a key member of the Sikh temple on St. Albert Trail, is survived by his wife and two children.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] New Delhi: An Indian-origin Sikh Buta Singh Gill was shot dead at a construction site in Canada\u2019s Edmonton city on Monday. Gill was a builder and head of the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple in the city. The Edmonton police said, \u201cAt approximately 12:00 pm today, Monday, April 8, 2024, Southwest Branch patrol officers responded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25040,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25038\/revisions\/25040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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